Alloy Blast Smelter

The Alloy Blast Smelter (ABS) is an IV tier multiblock for smelting dusts into molten alloys. Many of the basic alloys can also be made in the Industrial Mixing Machine and Zyngen, but it is typically faster and more efficient to smelt them directly into fluids in the ABS. Tougher alloys such as indalloy 140 or maraging steel can only be made in the ABS. There are no tiered components or any sort of bonuses and there is no tier skipping, even when overclocking with multiple energy hatches. The minimum casing requirement is very low to allow for many buses/hatches since there are 12 unique programmed circuits out of the 73 recipes. The ABS is superseded by the Mega Alloy Blast Smelter in UV.

The ABS has no tiered components. Buses/hatches may replace any casing anywhere on the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported, but there can be multiple regular energy hatches for overclocking. The only caveat is that there is NO tier skipping (e.g. two IV energy hatches can run the ABS at LuV voltage but cannot process LuV recipes). Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure.

Structure

• Controller: Front bottom center
• 16 Blast Smelter Heat Containment Coil
• 3-12 Blast Smelter Casing Block
• 1+ Energy Hatch: Any casing
• 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any casing
• 1 Muffler Hatch: Any casing
• 1+ Input Bus: Any casing
• 0+ Input Hatch: Any casing
• 1+ Output Hatch: Any casing
• Mandatory Air: Interior of the structure

Wallsharing

ABS may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings, coils, and buses/hatches. However, reducing the number of unique input buses may not be very helpful considering the sheer amount of programmed circuits in the recipes.

The ABS smelts dusts into molten alloys. Many of the basic alloys can also be made in the Industrial Mixing Machine and Zyngen, but it is typically faster and more efficient to smelt them directly into fluids in the ABS. Tougher alloys such as indalloy 140 or maraging steel can only be made in the ABS, which gates many of the other IV tier multiblocks. There are no tiered components or any sort of bonuses and there is no tier skipping, even when overclocking with multiple energy hatches.

Input separation should be enabled on the ABS to prevent SOLID ingredients in different input buses from being used in the same recipe, including any programmed circuits. That means a single ABS with many input buses can support many different programmed circuits simultaneously. Just don't forget to stay above the minimum number of casings. FLUID ingredients are always shared regardless of input separation, unless the input hatch is colored.

The following tables list all 73 ABS recipes by their voltage tier and programmed circuit (PC). In total, there are 12 unique programmed circuits to be spread out across 8 different input buses if the last few are combined.

• The programmed circuit for ABS recipes is generally tied to the number of inputs instead of actually preventing recipe conflicts.